#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2015.10.26

[sherrie]

Happy #MagentoMonday!

Coming to you live from Madrid this time, so this is reaching you a bit sooner than usual. Really looking forward to some face time with some of the community this week as we head into Meet Magento Spain on Wednesday!

If you're new to our forums, welcome! I'm so glad you're here! Take a look around and be sure to reach out to me or any of our awesome moderators if you have any questions.

Don’t forget—if you're headed to MagentoLive Australia, we have a special group here just for you. Take a look and be sure to introduce yourself!

Here's what the community has been writing about this past week:

• How to Refund in Magento 2.0, by Andrey Dubina (October 20)
• Improving the Conversion Rate of Magento Stores, by Paul Rogers (October 20)
• Ecommerce Platforms Popularity, October 2015: Top Five Solutions Take Three Quarters of the Market, by aheadWorks (October 21)
• Administrative Magento Enterprise Features 101, by Alyssa Schaad (October 21)
• Holiday Shipping Strategies That Pay Off, by Carl Hartmann (October 21)
• How to Rewrite URL’s in Magento 2.0, by Andrey Dubina (October 22)
• Automation Tips for Busy Holiday Marketers, by Skip Fidura (October 22)
• Building Magento 2 Extension – CustomerGrid, by Max Yekaterynenko (October 22)
• Magento 2 and Composer: Tutorial preview, by James Cowie (October 23)
• Magento 2: Merchant Beta Quickstart, by Alan Storm (October 23)

I’m always impressed by the willingness of our community to share Magento with the broader PHP world. Huge thanks to Joshua Warren, Fabrizio Branca, Thijs Feryn and Mathew Beane for their presentations at ZendCon 2015:

• Magento 2 - An Intro to a Modern PHP-Based System, by Joshua Warren
• How to Build a Pure Evil Magento Module, by Fabrizio Branca
• Rock-solid Magento Development and Deployment Workflows, by Fabrizio Branca
• Making Magento Go Fast, by Thijs Feryn
• Scaling Magento, by Mathew Beane
• Magento 101, by Mathew Beane
• Z-Ray & Magento, by Mathew Beane

It’s no secret that I’m a strong advocate for being in the same room with others in the Magento community, so here’s what’s coming up:

• If you’re in Austria, Lime Soda is hosting another meetup on November 24. Check out their site for details.
• The WebShopsApp crew is also hosting a meetup on Magento 2: Why We Need It on November 12.
• The second Mage Unconference was just announced for March 12-13, 2016, in Berlin.

In other event news around the world:

• Clustrix at Meet Magento NY 2015, by Ken Feehan (October 19)
• Event Recap: Meet Magento Romania 2015, by Cristina Roman (October 20)
• Meet Magento Association team enjoyed Meet Magento Poland 2015, by Annett Kretzschmar (October 21)
• Import Data – from PIM and other systems – lessons learned, by Marcel Hauri (October 23)
• DevOps and Magento, by Aarno Aukia (October 23)
• Don’t fear the Boilerplate – Magento with Bootstrap and Gulp, by Tobias Hartmann (October 26)
• Ben Marks finally got the clone he’s been requesting at Meet Magento Poland.
• And in case you missed it, the Meet Magento Poland crew went skydiving before kicking off the event! Catch their experience on video.

For a full list of upcoming events, be sure to check out our Event Calendar, as well as browsing magento.meetup.com for a list of meetups near you.

Do you want to contribute to our official Magento 2 documentation? Submit a pull request! 

One final note, as I know security is top of mind, please take note of our Security Best Practices. If you’ve seen them before, a refresher never hurts!

Did I miss anything? Private message me here or reach out on Twitter at @sherrierohde!